8th Grade Literature Test 12

Question 1

wrote “The Lady of Shallot”

Answer 1

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Question 2

wrote “The Case of the Missing Will”

Answer 2

Agatha Christie

Question 3

wrote “The Ransom of Red Chief”

Answer 3

O. Henry

Question 4

wrote “To Repel Boarders”

Answer 4

Jack London

Question 5

wrote “Christ Is Born”

Answer 5

Lew Wallace

Question 6

wrote “Christmas Day in the Morning”

Answer 6

Pearl Buck

Question 7

wrote “My Struggle for Education”

Answer 7

Booker T. Washington

Question 8

wrote “Mowgli’s Brothers”

Answer 8

Rudyard Kipling

Question 9

wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

Answer 9

Washington Irving

Question 10

wrote “The Wreck of the Hesperus”

Answer 10

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 11

the name of the detective in “The Case of the Missing Will”

Answer 11

Hercule Poirot

Question 12

Ai-weh-deh traveled around to inspect the ___ of little Chinese girls

Answer 12

feet

Question 13

Jason had to name the two ___ of Kig Aeetes before further pursuing the Golden Fleece

Answer 13

brazen-lunged bulls

Question 14

In “The Last Lesson,” Monsieur Hamel told his students that they were about to receive their last lesson in

Answer 14

French

Question 15

counseled Mowgli to get some of the Red Flower to protect himself against his enemies.

Answer 15

Bagheera

Question 16

the name of the ship that hit the reef of Norman’s Woe

Answer 16

Hesperus

Question 17

In “Miss Hinch,” Jessie Dark’s occupation

Answer 17

detective

Question 18

While making a trip to ___, Grenfell became trapped on an ice-pan with his sled dogs

Answer 18

give medical attention

Question 19

hoped Anne would be more sensible

Answer 19

Marilla

Question 20

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem about an Indian boy named ___ who was raised by Nokomis

Answer 20

Hiawatha

Question 21

the sea creature that attacked and nearly killed the pearl diver was the giant

Answer 21

octopus

Question 22

the hounds tracked the __ named Big Reddy to Coon Castle

Answer 22

fox

Question 23

___ people lived through the Alpine crash of Captain Tate’s airplane

Answer 23

Twelve

Question 24

paid the boy five dollars after he had done “the impossible”

Answer 24

the Countess

Question 25

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the firs people to stand on the summit of

Answer 25

Mount Everest